All Those Embroidery Stitches…
August 11, 2009 by Chloe Findlay-Harder
Filed under Home & Living
Do you tend to stick to a few tried and tested favorite hand embroidery stitches?
I know I’m guilty of primarily working in cross stitch and the standard needlepoint stitches, the tent or half-cross stitch. I may bring out the lazy daisy or back stitch if I’m not working on gridded canvas or Aida cloth…
But there is a world of stitches out there!
Have you ever heard of the “Droit stitch” or the “Stepped Sheaf stitch”? How about the exotic-sounding “Turkey”, “Egyptian” or “Romanian” stitches?
If you’d like to expand your stitching repertoire, the Stitchopedia website is the place to start your search. They’ve got listings for all kinds of amazing-sounding hand-embroidery stitches. Each stitch has a diagram as well as a text description of how to form the stitch. They also have printable diagrams so you can print and save the stitch how-to. Perfect if you don’t embroider in front of the computer!
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